Graves' District 6 was reconfigured to create the second majority-minority district. It now stretches from Shreveport, in ...

Democrat Cleo Fields has won Louisiana’s congressional race in a recently redrawn second majority-Black district, flipping a ...

The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal over Louisiana’s more Democratic-friendly congressional districts, ...

The Supreme Court ultimately upheld the Alabama ruling, prompting the creation of a new map with an additional district ...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide the ongoing legal dispute over issues of race relating to Louisiana's ...

Cleo Fields, a longtime Baton Rouge politician, won more than 50 percent of the vote in an open primary, negating the need ...

In a critical election year, Democrats are looking to flip a once reliably Republican Louisiana congressional seat ...

The high court eventually affirmed the ruling from Alabama, which led to a new map and a second district that could elect a ...

Monday's decision puts the spotlight back on an enforcement provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act, Section 2. While Louisiana's majority-Black District 6 will stand for Tuesday's election, the ...

The Supreme Court announced Monday it will decide whether Louisiana’s latest congressional map is unconstitutional.

At issue now is Louisiana’s new map, which the Legislature passed in January to avoid a court taking over the drawing of the lines. It includes a second majority-Black district. The new map came ...

The high court eventually affirmed the ruling from Alabama, which led to a new map and a second district that could elect a Black lawmaker. The justices returned the Louisiana case to federal ...